Indian captain Mithali Raj on Friday mentioned she has all the time seemed to evolve and keep related in a altering girls’s recreation, an method that has introduced her 10,000 runs throughout codecs in worldwide cricket.
The 38-year-old veteran ODI skipper, who has been taking part in within the top-flight for greater than twenty years, is the primary Indian girl cricketer and second internationally to succeed in the milestone.
Mithali achieved the feat with a boundary off Anne Bosch within the twenty eighth over of India’s innings throughout the third ODI towards South Africa right here.
“As long as I get an opportunity to bat, it has to be counted and that has given me a lot of experience and exposure to work on my game over the years with the changing standards in women’s game and trying to be relevant in the international circuit,” Mithali mentioned.
The ODI captain mentioned being constant mattered extra to her than particular person milestones.
“When you play for this long, you go through different milestones. This being one of it, the key for me has always been consistency and I have always believed in scoring runs each time I go out to bat, whether it is domestic or international cricket,” she mentioned.
South African opener Lizelle Lee single-handedly destroyed India’s probabilities with a career-best unbeaten 132 as the house crew misplaced by six runs by way of the Duckworth-Lewis (DLS) methodology within the rain-marred third ODI of the five-match collection.
Asked what she meant by staying related in worldwide cricket, Mithali mentioned, “I feel being related goes with the instances, girls’s cricket has developed over time.
“Teams are scoring 250 and about, you need to tune your game accordingly. I have not really given much of a thought to any of the milestones. One milestone which will truly stand out is if we go on to win the world cup, that will always be very very special.”
About the efficiency of the spinners, she mentioned there was a must work on consistency, including it was not worrisome.
“Well, see what we have to work on is consistency, and it’s not worrisome. They will get again to the kind of rhythm that they had earlier than the pandemic.
“But sure, clearly when you’ve gotten a batting monitor, when you’ve gotten tracks which aren’t aiding the spinners, in order that they have little or no (scope), you realize making an attempt variations.
“I guess it is important for them to work on these things, have a lot of plans, our spin attack is experienced, it is not that they are young or novice, so clearly I am sure they will work on these things in the coming games.”
The Indian ODI skipper additionally burdened on having batters who can speed up within the final 10 overs of an innings.
“Well, we positively must have batters taking part in the final 10 overs as a result of clearly the kind of recreation {that a} batter has, the decrease or tail-ender might not, so it will be significant that we have now the batters taking part in the final 10 overs and a settled batter will all the time be very useful in these instances.
“Yes we have players like Harman (Harmanpreet Kaur) and Deepti (Sharma) and it is just a matter of few innings that they will come good in those 10 overs,” she added.
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